Home on the Move

Dr Ricarda Vidal is a lecturer, translator and curator. She teaches at King's College London and is the founder of `Translation Games', a research project into the theory and practice of intersemiotic and multilingual translation. Her most recent book, Translating across Sensory and Linguistic Borders: Intersemiotic Journeys across Media (co-edited with Madeleine Campbell) will be published with Palgrave in autumn 2018.Dr Manuela Perteghella is a curator, creative producer and translation theorist. She has published research in the field of literary and theatre translation, promoting the theory of translation. She has taught translation at universities in the UK, and more recently at the Open University, and has worked for theatre companies. Manuela blogs on `The Creative Literary Studio', and is the co-curator of `TransARTation!', a touring exhibition of inter-art translation.

Home on the Move is a multilingual anthology of contemporary poetry that explores and interrogates ideas of home, belonging and language from poetic perspectives. Featuring filmmakers, translators, artists and poets from Romania, Poland, France, Spain, the UK, Iraq, Germany and Italy, Home on the Move explores notions of ‘home’ that are challenged and reshaped by unprecedented migration. The creative responses are the results of a journey undertaken by two poems about ‘home’: TS Eliot Prize shortlisted Deryn Rees-Jones’ poem travelled from the UK via France to Spain and back whilst Polish poet Rafał Gawin’s travelled to the UK via Romania and back to Poland. These poems reflect the inspiration of the places they visited. During each journey, the poems were translated by a literary translator and a local film artist. The poems and their literary and artistic translations toured England in summer 2018 and were translated into new poetry in English and other languages in a series of workshops. A selection of these retranslations is included in Home on the Move. This multilingual anthology of poetry and translation was produced as part of the touring project ‘Talking Transformations: Home on the Move’. Features TS Eliot Prize shortlisted poet Deryn Rees-Jones.